{"id":3154,"date":"2013-12-06T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2013-12-06T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:53:39","slug":"gift-books-for-favorite-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/gift-books-for-favorite-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Books for Favorite Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hatchet\"<\/a>Long ago, when my nieces and nephews first came on the scene, my husband suggested that we stake out territory as the aunt and uncle who always send books for gifts.\u00a0 It was the perfect decision.\u00a0 We love the kids, and books, and giving.\u00a0 We live far from our families, so it was harder to create bonds with kids we seldom saw, and being book-senders gave us an identity that would have been diffused if we\u2019d sent a toy one year and toe socks the next.\u00a0 Books led to conversations with the parents beforehand and with the kids afterward, and over time, we\u2019ve built a tradition that feels special, at least to me.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m thinking about books to send to 24 nieces and nephews this holiday, here is a look at some of the favorites we\u2019ve sent over the years.\u00a0 A few are out of print and worth a search, but most are contemporary and easy to order.\u00a0 The real nieces and nephews have their own personalities and interests, but for the sake of simplicity, here I\u2019ve compiled titles into one list each for a favorite niece and a favorite nephew, by age.<\/p>\n

\"Bugs\"<\/a>For a Favorite Nephew<\/strong><\/p>\n

Age, Title, Author<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0 Bath Time<\/span>,<\/a> S. Boynton<\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0 How Many Bugs in a Box?<\/a>,<\/span> D. Carter<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0 The Game of Finger Worms<\/span><\/a>, H. Tullet<\/p>\n

4\u00a0\u00a0 The Red Book<\/span><\/a>, Lehman<\/p>\n

5\u00a0\u00a0 Giants Come in Different Sizes<\/span><\/a>, J. Bradfield<\/p>\n

6\u00a0\u00a0 The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/span><\/a>, T. Stewart<\/p>\n

\"giants\"7\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t Feed the Boy<\/span><\/a>, I. Latham<\/p>\n

8\u00a0\u00a0 The Invasion (Animorphs #1)<\/span><\/a>, K. Applegate<\/p>\n

9\u00a0\u00a0 No Dogs Allowed<\/span><\/a>, B. Wallace<\/p>\n

10\u00a0 Hatchet<\/span><\/a>, G. Paulsen<\/p>\n

11\u00a0 The Dark Game: True Spy Stories<\/a>,<\/span> P. Janeczko<\/p>\n

12\u00a0 Trapped<\/span><\/a>, M. Northrup<\/p>\n

13\u00a0 Crash<\/span><\/a>, J. Spinelli<\/p>\n

14\u00a0 Homeland: The Dark Elf Trilogy (Drizzt #1)<\/span><\/a>, R. Salvatore<\/p>\n

\"ship\"<\/p>\n

15\u00a0 I Sing the Body Electric<\/span><\/a>, R. Bradbury<\/p>\n

16\u00a0 Ship Breaker<\/span><\/a>, P. Bacigalupi<\/p>\n

17\u00a0 The Things a Brother Knows<\/span><\/a>, D. Reinhardt<\/p>\n

18\u00a0 Life of Pi<\/span><\/a>, Y. Martel<\/p>\n

19\u00a0 Something Like Normal<\/span><\/a>, T. Doller<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For a Favorite Niece<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Age, Title, Author<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Scarry\u2019s Cars and Trucks A-Z<\/span><\/a>, R. Scarry<\/p>\n

\"mirette\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0 Mirette on the High Wire<\/span><\/a>, E. McCully<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0 The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter<\/span><\/a>, E. Scott<\/p>\n

4\u00a0\u00a0 Sam and the Firefly<\/span><\/a>, P. Eastman<\/p>\n

5\u00a0\u00a0 The Castaway Pirates, A Pop-Up Tale<\/span><\/a>, R. Marshall<\/p>\n

6\u00a0\u00a0 Emma\u2019s Rug<\/span><\/a>, A. Say<\/p>\n

7\u00a0\u00a0 The Mysteries of Harris Burdick<\/span><\/a>, C. Van Allsburg<\/p>\n

8\u00a0\u00a0 A Little Princess<\/span><\/a>, F. Burnett<\/p>\n

\"yolonda\"<\/p>\n

9\u00a0\u00a0 Ella Enchanted<\/span><\/a>, G. Levine<\/p>\n

10\u00a0 The Tale of Despereaux<\/span><\/a>, K. DiCamillo<\/p>\n

11\u00a0 Yolonda\u2019s Genius<\/span><\/a>, C. Fenner<\/p>\n

12\u00a0 Alanna (Song of the Lioness #1)<\/span><\/a>, T. Pierce<\/p>\n

13\u00a0 Mouse Guard: Fall 1152<\/span><\/a>, D. Petersen<\/p>\n

14\u00a0 Shadow and Bone<\/span><\/a>, L. Bardugo<\/p>\n

15\u00a0 Please Ignore Vera Dietz<\/span><\/a>, A. King<\/p>\n

16 \u00a0Every Day<\/span><\/a>, D. Levithan<\/p>\n

17\u00a0 The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/span><\/a>, P. Ness<\/p>\n

\"every<\/p>\n

18 \u00a0The Mists of Avalon<\/span><\/a>, M. Bradley<\/p>\n

19\u00a0 Girl with a Pearl Earring<\/span><\/a>, T. Chevalier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long ago, when my nieces and nephews first came on the scene, my husband suggested that we stake out territory as the aunt and uncle who always send books for gifts.\u00a0 It was the perfect decision.\u00a0 We love the kids, and books, and giving.\u00a0 We live far from our families, so it was harder to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[200,199],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-best-books","tag-top-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}